“Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
More from John Stuart Mill on Happiness
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.”
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in...”
Albert Camus
5 quotes“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking...”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 quotes“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight...”
André Gide
5 quotes“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
Albert Schweitzer
5 quotes“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve...”